I’ve been prompting my way to all kinds of interactive HTML artifacts the last month or so. It’s way more fun than making decks and static documentation.
I even did a workshop with PartyKit cursors, dot voting, reflection comments, and an individual rating at the end.
Oh, and I can add super lightweight analytics so I know who actually reads my things or interacts with my prototypes. ^_^
Around this time last year I shared a talk on Enshittification, discussing what it means for design and technology professionals. Somehow it ended up being the #1 talk of the conference... so my team got to talking about how to build on it.
We felt like a children's book was just the right mix of irreverence, cheekiness, and fun to make this complex, systems-level topic more accessible for people.
It's a real children's board book with colourful illustrations printed on thick cardboard pages. The team had a LOT of fun putting it together — debating what each letter should be and how best to illustrate it.
And it's been a surprisingly useful tool for connecting with like-minded individuals in tech!
My fav letter:
X (which of course, is for Twitter — RIP sweet bird)
Most difficult letter:
K (after many discussions, we landed on K-shaped economy)
Longest word:
Verschlimbessern (borrowed from Pavel Samsonov of The Product Picnic... the German's have the best words)
If I’m understanding correctly, you’d likely combine this with Figma MCP for reading? Ie. have Claude Code read the file to understand a request, then use this tooling to make modifications?
Over the last year I’ve been exploring the overlap between UX and Product leadership, and the growing tension between the two. I've compiled a list of books, talks, and other resources that helped me make sense of the divide. Sharing in case it's useful for others working across design and product.
> The thing I’ve learned about leveling up in your career, or breaking through different ceilings, is that you really only realize that it happened in retrospect. Just like you don’t notice your hair growing or your face aging, you can’t really feel it as it’s happening. Be patient—evaluate later. Don’t kick yourself now because you think you’re stuck. You might be the opposite of stuck and just not know it.
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This one resonates hard for me right now. Having spent the last year feeling stuck, I’m finally starting to see the path out (I’m a UXer moving towards Product leader roles). I’ve spent a lot of time kicking myself, and now all of a sudden it’s starting to feel like I might be on the other side.
One note — on mobile the sticky section feels a bit tall making reading experience a bit clunky — maybe just screenshots from the simulation would do the trick, rather than live states?
Either way, looks great — nice work! Curious if the data shows anything about successful strategies, or if this could be simulated as well (ie. join an early stage company, get an MBA, etc).
As someone who always dabbled in code but never was a “real” developer, I’ve found the same thing. I know the concepts, I know good from bad — so all of a sudden I can vibe code things that would have taken me months of studying and debugging and banging my head against the wall.
If you’ll forgive a bit of self promotion, I also wrote some brief thoughts on my Adventures In AI Prototyping:
Definitely worry about this with my mother-in-law. I cleaned the malware off her computer yesterday because she was complaining that "google was broken" and that "every time it filled the screen with advertisements."
I don't really know what to do about it, but dementia + lack of technical understanding + lack of security best practices + retirement funds are, without doubt, going to be a huge problem in the coming decades.
Just curious whether it would it make more sense as an app (even if it's just a wrapper)? Is that on the road map? I know technically you can download large files in the browser but do normal people understand that?
On iOS with memory management, I always find that browser pages always feel.. brittle?
TLDR;
- Look for friendship markets, not just activity groups
- People are most open to new friendships when people are redefining themselves (i.e. school transitions, pregnancy, shifting identities).
- You're not awkward, you're just searching in the wrong markets where people are open to conversation but not connection.
I’ve done something similar with Figma-like commenting and find myself pulling it into all kinds of personal projects.